Research leader
Research team
End User representatives
Commissioned by AFAC, the purpose of this project was to generate a high level and comprehensive description of the major recurrent categories of recommendations across multiple post-event reviews conducted since 2009.
Natural disasters and emergencies in Australia have been followed by formal, complex, post-event inquiries and reviews literally hundreds of times. These inquires vary in form and focus, however, their common objective is to identify the causes of disasters and their consequences and to identify better future practices.
The outcomes of major inquiries in one jurisdiction sometimes have ramifications and lead to reform action in other states and territories. While this may be true of larger, higher profile events and inquiries, there is a foregone opportunity if the same process is not systematically undertaken for the outcomes of less prominent reviews and inquiries.
The negative hypothesis tested, provided to the review team, was:
‘There are no common themes to be identified when comparing and contrasting major post-incident reviews of emergency incidents, and the outcomes of those incidents and consequent recommendations turn on their own particular facts.’
In testing this hypothesis, the project sought to understand whether there is ongoing value for state and territory emergency services to consider the lessons from major reviews and inquiries from other jurisdictions within their own context, or whether lessons are too specific and lack broader import.
A core element of this project was the development of a comprehensive and user-friendly database of recommendations from post-event reviews and inquiries that can inform agencies own lessons identification practise now and into the future.
Year | Type | Citation |
---|---|---|
2017 | Report | Major post-event inquiries and reviews: review of recommendations. (Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC, 2017). |
2018 | Conference Paper | Research proceedings from the 2018 Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC and AFAC Conference. Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC & AFAC annual conference 2017 (Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC, 2018). |
Date | Title | Download | Key Topics |
---|---|---|---|
11 Feb 2021 | Learning lessons from the past with the Inquiries and Reviews Database | 612.59 KB (612.59 KB) | decision making, multi-hazard, policy |
22 Jan 2021 | The Inquiries and Reviews database - what's in it and how can you use it? | 0 bytes (0 bytes) | governance, planning, policy |